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Brill's Contentious ID Card
pwackerly writes "The New York Times (illegal kidney sale required) is running a story on a private venture funded by the man behind CourtTV to sell ID cards that let you bypass security, both national (airports) and private (your business's lobby). Outside of the standard national ID concerns, now we'd have to worry about a terrorist stealing our super-secret ID from our wallet. Don't these people learn anything from reading 'Mostly Harmless?'"
Yes well... One is only our lives, health, security. The other is the advertiser's money. Which do you think is better protected?
'Sensible' is a curse word.
The real player here is Choicepoint, whose database will be used to determine who gets an ID. That's right, the same folks Katherine Harris hired to purge the Florida voter rolls of "convicted felons" in 2000, striking thousands of mostly Black electors for having the same, or similar, names as actual felons.
(I'll trust the replies to provide links.)
Ben Masel: 51,282 votes for US Senate in the Wisconsin Democratic Primary
Our personal freedoms are restricted too much as it is. I'd rather live my life with a chance of being blown up by a terrorist rather then live in a police state.
Hollow words will burn and hollow men will burn.
It's very simple: You DON'T fly.
So they'd arrest me without any evidenc eor even hint of it?
Isreal has a large problem with suicide bombings
Then, why are assholes like Scharon, who enforce those bombings with their politics, in the government instead of being in jail like war criminals should be? This is not meant to justify those suicide bombings, but it is overdue to be stated clearly that the so-called "military actions" of the Israelis are not better (IMO even worse, as it's the state, not only some idiots under the people) than bombing a restaurant in Tel Aviv.
People in Isreal are normal people. They just don't like being blown up.
I'm sure all the palestinensian kids and other people who died from Israelian rockets didn't like that, too. But they were killed by regular military forces, not by terrorists which are only a small part of the people!